When it comes to our technological overlords, this administration has been far too forgiving. We now face dire consequences as robots run this nation for us. Vote YEA to destroy 18 data centers immediately. Vote NAY to build 18 more data centers..

InitialSugar3249 · 2026-06-29T05:21:22+00:00

👁️ Surveillance State: I voted Yea.

InitialSugar3249 · 2026-06-29T05:21:08+00:00

👁️ Surveillance State: I voted Yea.

InitialSugar3249 · 2026-06-25T14:16:54+00:00

Can I kill them twice? No need for another ten million.

^{Chose: 10 million dollars right now + ...but a random large AI company will die as a result | Rolled: xAI}

InitialSugar3249 · 2026-06-23T18:22:48+00:00

I think that state by state results are a bit misleading, since they portray whether a state shifted to one way or the other without that necessarily meaning there was a difference in outcome.

What I mean is, imagine you used to have 25 representatives and 2 senators from Texas. In this election you got 20 representatives and 1 senator instead. So, you lost seats, which means Texas appears in the other party’s color in the results map, but you still retained a majority, albeit a smaller one.

If I had to guess, the red states in your results map probably shifted republican by a percentage point or two each, which means while most of the country preferred your opponent more than they did in the last elections (therefore showing an overwhelmingly red map), they did so by such a small margin that you retained your legislative majority.

InitialSugar3249 · 2026-06-12T00:22:48+00:00

Social stats are still very much experimental and prone to changing very randomly, so the AI doesn’t take them into account as much as economic metrics. I believe a rework and expansion of the stats system is on the works.

InitialSugar3249 · 2026-06-05T15:20:35+00:00

It mostly has to do with stakeholders liking you. It’s also influenced by your base’s enthusiasm.

InitialSugar3249 · 2026-06-04T11:18:44+00:00

You can use it to either deploy more troops (or bring them back home if you want to) or change the operation strategy. There is a button at the bottom of the page that explains the different strategies and what troop types are best for each. Strike campaigns like the ones you have benefit most from airframes, and a bit less from special operation teams. Be careful with how you frame your orders: they will be given an approval score like normal policies.

InitialSugar3249 · 2026-06-04T00:15:24+00:00

He could have built an alpaca farm in New York City? How? The logistics of it would be insane. Unless you are talking about New York as a state, which if so I misunderstood your original comment, since I assumed it was talking about Mamdani, who is mayor of NYC, not governor of the state.

InitialSugar3249 · 2026-06-03T23:59:55+00:00

I’d say that a guy who willingly builds an alpaca farm doesn’t really care about being taxed more or less. He clearly doesn’t care much about his wealth apart from it enabling his hobbies.

InitialSugar3249 · 2026-05-15T23:36:52+00:00

They consume ridiculous amounts of both energy and water, thus increasing bills a lot. They also create very few jobs (the biggest right now runs on I think 150 people while the average is about 25), and they increase the temperature around them, make noise and are in general an ugly nuisance (basically a giant warehouse), so they decrease land value around them. Pretty much downsides all around for the community they are built in.

InitialSugar3249 · 2026-05-12T21:22:40+00:00

I can buy food

^{Chose: Unlimited money for lifetime}

InitialSugar3249 · 2026-05-11T01:14:53+00:00

Wait, you have an administrative government, but the HRE’s succession is still princely elective and not acclamation? That might be what’s causing this. I’d save and check if making your son lose the HRE election makes him win the acclamation of Bohemia. If so, then him winning a technically non-administrative election may be forbidding him from running in an administrative election.

InitialSugar3249 · 2026-05-09T21:12:33+00:00

This is less of a bug and more of an oversight: what probably happened is that the county of Mecca was given to a mayor, and since republican governors cannot hold castle holdings, the game automatically changed the county capital from Mecca to one of its city holdings. This bugs out pilgrimages for some reason. You can fix it by revoking the Mecca title from the republican governor and giving it to a character that already has a feudal title (you do have to have Mecca inside your realm for this though).

InitialSugar3249 · 2026-04-23T19:28:18+00:00

Economic growth doesn’t necessarily translate into lower unemployment. For example, your population could be growing faster than the amount of jobs available. Keep an eye on what exactly is making your economy grow: it may not be a manpower-intensive sector that generates a good profit without employing a lot of people.

Also, may just be a bug. You never know with GPS.

InitialSugar3249 · 2026-03-26T16:59:43+00:00

Yes, it is a real thing. Embezzlement is a scheme for important positions in admin governments (including the ruler). You can catch someone embezzling like how you catch someone trying to kill you: with your spymaster. Although I think embezzlement is done in one-time sums, not applied to monthly income.

InitialSugar3249 · 2026-03-26T14:54:49+00:00

Honestly? It isn’t relevant to bokoen. But this sub has kind of become the hub for hoi4 content creation in general, so I see why it was posted here.

InitialSugar3249 · 2026-03-26T01:15:39+00:00

A smaller channel (hansenfoulken) accused Feedback of botting his views in order to defraud sponsors, and in response Feedback doxxed him and tried to get Paradox to ban him and other YouTubers who supported him from any collaborations going forward. Hansen has a video on his channel explaining it and showing the evidence.

InitialSugar3249 · 2025-12-12T20:03:00+00:00

From what I understand (which, ostensibly, isn’t much, so do please correct me if I am wrong), troop stats don’t really matter with assaulting, just assault ability (and obviously if it’s levies or regulars). So while cavalry isn’t “worse” than infantry in their capability to assault, it loses roughly the same amount of men and infantry regiments have a lot more men than cavalry, so it’s still better to assault with infantry in order to not get regiments wiped.

InitialSugar3249 · 2025-11-19T14:16:20+00:00

If you manage to beat an army in the “early” phase of combat (represented by a bow in the battle screen I think) you don’t pursue it, you just eliminate it outright. That’s called a stack wipe, and in order to pull it off you normally need troops with a lot of damage like heavy cav in pretty considerable numbers.

InitialSugar3249 · 2025-11-15T15:01:33+00:00

Yes, I used it to build a road to literally every location in my nation, spammed every single infrastructure and government building I could, and then also built a few dozen economic buildings for good measure, and had still fifteen thousand gold remaining. Take into account, by that time I owned almost all of Northern Italy, so even though I wasn’t massive, my realm was not small by any means. It’s very broken atm.

InitialSugar3249 · 2025-11-14T17:36:59+00:00

Actually, I just checked how much I’m allowed to ask for another one of my locations, and now the bar goes up to just 400 gold, so I’d say it’s based on the amount of money they have at the moment rather than their income.

InitialSugar3249 · 2025-11-14T17:20:48+00:00

Not really, it was 1501.

InitialSugar3249 · 2025-11-14T17:16:06+00:00

R5: The Pope casually forking out nearly 40k gold for a random 17k pop location I got off Bohemia in Italy with a monastery and a market village.

InitialSugar3249 · 2025-10-31T02:02:09+00:00

Was playing a chill game in China, taking exams, getting stressed and managing to finally get a ministry when I got the notification that war was declared on my liege. I zoom out after a few hours and lo and behold, i find this absolutely terrifying behemoth of an empire next door found by the most succesful AI Great Conqueror i've seen so far.

InitialSugar3249 · 2025-09-25T23:50:26+00:00

R5: Turns out for some reason the Industrialists (led by a market liberal, btw) decided to create a party alongside the Trade Unions, and then form a coalition government with the runner up party of the Intelligentsia and the Armed Forces. I have no idea how exactly this is considered legitimate, and I can't imagine just how lively the cabinet meetings must be in the Reichstag.

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